The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation. George W. Carey

      CHAPTER I

      THE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF ARIES AND KALI PHOS.

      “(Gad) A troop shall overcome him, but he shall overcome at last.”

      —Genesis XLIX.

      IN order to obtain facts, it is absolutely essential first to trace to their origin the meanings of the words used in expressing the problem under consideration. Therefore, their etymology must be studied. This is the infallible key by means of which knowledge of anything may be obtained.

      In his book, The Study of Words, Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., quotes the following from an unmentioned writer: “In a language like ours, where so many words are derived from other languages, there are few modes of instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology or primary meaning of the words they use. There are cases in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the history of a word than by the history of a campaign.” To make the foregoing statement more emphatic we would add that accurate information is unobtainable otherwise.

      Mr. Trench even more sympathetically states: “Many a single word also is itself a concentrated poem, having stories of poetical thought and imagery laid up in it. Examine it and it will be found to rest on some deep analogy of things natural and things spiritual, bringing those to illustrate and to give an abiding form and body to these. For certainly in itself there is no study which may be made at once more instructive and entertaining than the study of the use, origin, and distinction of words.”

      Elsewhere in his book he deplores the lack of interest in that which is worth while, at the same time analyzing the word “pastime.”

      He says, “The world, out of its own use of this word, renders judgment against itself. For it is concerned with amusements and pleasures which do not really satisfy the mind and fill it with the sense of an abiding and satisfying joy; they serve only, as this word confesses, to pass away the time, to prevent it from hanging, an intolerable burden, on man’s hands; all which they can do at the best is to prevent men from discovering and attending to their own internal poverty and dissatisfaction and want.”

      So important is this subject that one more quotation from his invaluable book must be made. He says: “I shall urge on you something different, namely, that not in books only, but often in words contemplated singly, there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination, laid up—that from these, lessons of infinite worth may be derived, if only our attention is aroused to their existence. I shall urge on you how well it will repay you to study the words which you are in the habit of using or of meeting, be they such as relate to highest spiritual things, or our common words of the shop and market, and of all the familiar intercourse of life. It will indeed repay you far better than you can easily believe. I am sure that, for many a young man, his first discovery of the fact that words are living powers, are the vesture, yea, even of the body, which thoughts weave for themselves, has been like the dropping of scales from his eyes, like the acquiring of another sense, or the introduction into a new world; he is never able to cease wondering at the moral marvels that surround him on every side, and ever reveal themselves more and more to his gaze.”

      The above statements are true. A New World verily appears to the student of words—the world of Knowledge. For words, as well as letters and numbers, are the containers and the expressions of definite values. The reason—satisfying information given herein has been obtained by the study of words.

      Because the sun rises in the east, bringing with it light and heat, it has from time immemorial been termed the creator, and each nation and people has had its own revered, yet intimate name for this giver of life.

      There are two periods in a year when the days and nights are of equal lengths, and they are termed equinoxes. The first, occurring on March twenty-first, is the Spring equinox; exactly six months later we have the Fall equinox.

      The Sun, then, crossing the equinoctial line, or equator, on the twenty-first of March, is said to bring the first day of Spring, for there is an awakening, a spring-ing up and therefore a resurrection of all Nature. Indeed, very, very few realize anything at all of the sacred out-pouring, a flood-tide of heavenly power, of spiritual electricity which charges not only the earth but all human beings who are able to receive it. Each human being is a battery, an aggregation of cells, and the law governing its charging is exactly the same as that with which electricians are familiar. It must have the necessary material to attract electricity, the proper kind and the right quantity. A knowledge of the cell-salts, such as is contained in Schuessler’s Biochemistry, solves the problem.

      Few are so dull as to escape entirely the glamour and glory of the days when the first faint misty green appears, when mating birds fly hither and thither, and virgin earth prepares to pour out her bountiful gifts that man may be fed from her bosom.

      But what does it mean to those who sense its approach and to whom its arrival brings keenest joy and a deep and abiding satisfaction? They are being resurrected, for their minds are actually expanding under the influence of that same God-power; the brain substance is being acted on by Cosmic Electricity outpoured from the cerebrum of the Grand Man.

      This is the time, then, to begin one’s labors, for the charged battery must begin to work—to be utilized. Would that humanity could realize this mighty fact! But human batteries are functioning poorly, the currents are weak, the cells actually corroded. The great reservoir of unlimited electrical power is ever present in the universe—Spirit is never deficient. The trouble lies only in the human battery. It can not contact what it has no power to attract. This is the mysterious chemical secret that has been hidden from man by his own ignorance, and it is this secret which this chapter will reveal, for it is Kali phos which is the casket that holds this priceless gem.

      The terrific impetus back of all natural phenomena at this time is the reason that this period of the year is termed Spring. The rabbit is one of the symbols of Spring and of Easter, as it jumps or springs in moving about. The story of the universe and of man has been brought down through the ages under many forms, among these being animal symbols. Those born at this time of the year usually walk with a springing step.

      At this season we find the Sun actually springing or climbing up into the heavens until it reaches its highest point, that of the Summer solstice. This is the longest day of the year. The Sun is said to be at its greatest declination, resting, as it were, before going on its journey, but pausing to accomplish something special. The date is approximately June twenty-first.

      Six months later we have the Winter solstice, when the sun reaches its lowest point, and on December twenty-first, approximately, again appears to rest. The Summer solstice is, therefore, ninety degrees away from the Spring equinox, and the same number of degrees from the Fall equinox; while the Winter solstice is ninety degrees from both the Spring and Fall equinoxes. These facts are very important to remember and must become fixed in the mind, as these four points constitute the cardinal cross of Nature and of the human body as well. The signs having to do with these points of the cross are Aries, Cancer. Libra and Capricorn.

      Signs that are ninety degrees away from each other are said to be square. This is also an important point to fix in the mind in order to read one’s chart correctly. The word square is used for the same reason that both practical and theoretical Masons employ it. When understood, the problem of squaring one’s circle is solved; for the four signs of one’s cross form four squares. In making the bodily correction represented by each square